A new approach to music journalism
Whatever happened to quality, person-to-person communication?
Sure, we'd like to think that social media is the next step for the human race: it's faster, conveying information at incredible speeds, reliable, and can not be topped in its ability to spread ideas, messages, blurbs, etc.
While this is all well and good, what of real talk: the nuances of confrontation, the exchange of the nonverbal, the unwritten poetry of communication.
As a society, we have come to place more emphasis on the constructed, and less on the innate. In music journalism, the same has happened: in an effort to expose something new, we are given only the basic description of a song, album, or artist. Few go farther than what is required; and this gave me an idea.
Rather than showcasing any old group, I focus on a select number of bands and musicians, and engage them in interviews filled to the brim with profound, original questions. Not only do you, the listener, get a sense of where inspirations for tracks or albums came from, but you also get a intimate view of the artist as a real person, with real vision, thoughts and ideas. It is this intimacy that is the nuclei of this blog; to bring the fan closer than ever before to artists, while still preserving journalistic professionalism.
I'm Connor Hayes, and I'm a journalist who wanted to do things differently.
Welcome to Denim Solves Everything.
Sure, we'd like to think that social media is the next step for the human race: it's faster, conveying information at incredible speeds, reliable, and can not be topped in its ability to spread ideas, messages, blurbs, etc.
While this is all well and good, what of real talk: the nuances of confrontation, the exchange of the nonverbal, the unwritten poetry of communication.
As a society, we have come to place more emphasis on the constructed, and less on the innate. In music journalism, the same has happened: in an effort to expose something new, we are given only the basic description of a song, album, or artist. Few go farther than what is required; and this gave me an idea.
Rather than showcasing any old group, I focus on a select number of bands and musicians, and engage them in interviews filled to the brim with profound, original questions. Not only do you, the listener, get a sense of where inspirations for tracks or albums came from, but you also get a intimate view of the artist as a real person, with real vision, thoughts and ideas. It is this intimacy that is the nuclei of this blog; to bring the fan closer than ever before to artists, while still preserving journalistic professionalism.
I'm Connor Hayes, and I'm a journalist who wanted to do things differently.
Welcome to Denim Solves Everything.